This page is a collection of quotations from the era of the second official incarnation of The Doctor from the BBC science fiction television programme Doctor Who, during which the role of the Second Doctor was played by Patrick Troughton. As Doctor Who stories in other media (such as books, audio plays, etc) are the subject of intense debate as regarding their place in the series' overall canon, these quotations are taken entirely from episodes broadcast on television.

(5 November - 10 December 1966) — Although this serial marked the first appearance of the Second Doctor, it was the third serial of the fourth season.

Polly: [inside the TARDIS, the Doctor is regenerating. Ben and Polly watch in amazement as the frail old man changes into a younger figure. Ben and Polly discuss the "new" Doctor lying on the floor of the TARDIS] His face, his hair. Look at it!

Controller: I... I will tell them. I will tell them. I... I'll do what you say. Keep away. Don't touch me! I'll obey!

[a claw is seen on screen dragging the old man off]

Jamie: What's that? What's happening!

Polly: Doctor, that was it? that thing in the picture! That was the claw! They're in control.

Pilot: Take them out of here. They are condemned to the pits!

Polly: Macra!

Pilot: Take them away!

Polly: They're in control

Polly: The old shaft. Doctor, that's where Jamie is!

The Doctor: So they're going to pour this gas in the old shaft - gas they value above all else. What do you make of that, Polly?

Polly: For goodness sake, Doctor. What are you going on about?

The Doctor: Don't you see? Control are not pouring this poisonous gas into the old shaft to kill Jamie. They've quite another reason.

Polly: Doctor, you've got to do something to help him.

The Doctor: Before we act, we must think. Now, the Macra that have come to the surface of this planet have not found sufficient gas in the atmosphere, so they've had to get somebody to pump it up from down below.

Polly: But, if it's life and death to them, why do they waste it? Why divert it into the old shaft?

The Doctor: [thinking aloud] That's obvious, Polly, obvious. Because there's something trapped down there they wish to keep alive!

The Doctor: I am not a student of human nature. I am a professor of a far wider academy of which human nature is merely a part.

The Emperor Dalek: The experiment is over?

Doctor: Yes. I have implanted the human factor in the three Daleks that you gave me.

[to Waterfield and Jamie]

Doctor: When I say "run", - run!

The Emperor Dalek: Speak louder!

Doctor: I was merely telling my friend that the day of the Daleks is coming to an end.

The Emperor Dalek: Explain.

Doctor: It's very simple. Somewhere in the Dalek race there are three Daleks with the "Human Factor". Gradually, they will come to question. They will persuade other Daleks to question. You will have a rebellion on your planet!

The Emperor Dalek: No!

Doctor: I say, yes! I've beaten you, and I don't care what you do to me now!

The Emperor Dalek: Silence. The "Human Factor" showed us what the "Dalek Factor" was.

Doctor: [his "triumphant" face falling] What?

Jamie McCrimmon: Well, what does that mean?

The Emperor Dalek: Without knowing, you have shown the Daleks what their own strength is.

Edward Waterfield: While you were doing one thing, they were really making you do another.

The Emperor Dalek: The "Human Factor" is useless.

Doctor: You still have those three Daleks to contend with.

The Emperor Dalek: They will be impregnated with the "Dalek Factor". Your discovery, but your work is not over.

Doctor: I won't work for you!

The Emperor Dalek: You will obey!

Jamie McCrimmon: What is the "Dalek Factor"?

Doctor: You want me to guess? It means to obey, to fight, to destroy, to exterminate. I won't do it.

The Emperor Dalek: Watch!

[a light comes on, revealing the TARDIS]

Jamie McCrimmon: The TARDIS, Doctor!

The Emperor Dalek: You will take the "Dalek Factor". You will spread it to the entire history of Earth!

Jamie:[To The Doctor] Anyone would think that it's a little game, and it's not. People have died. The Daleks are all over, fit to murder the lot of us, and all you can say is that you've had a good night's work. Well, I'm telling you this, we're finished. You're just too callous for me. Anything goes by the board, anything at all. You don't give that much for a living soul except yourself. Just whose side are you on?

Victoria: It's only when I close my eyes. I can still see him standing there, before those horrible Dalek creatures came to the house. He was a very kind man, I shall never forget him. Never.

The Doctor: No, of course you won't. But, you know, the memory of him won't always be a sad one.

Victoria: I think it will. You can't understand, being so ancient.

The Doctor: Eh?

Victoria: I mean old.

The Doctor: Oh.

Victoria: You probably can't remember your family.

The Doctor: Oh yes, I can when I want to. And that's the point, really. I have to really want to, to bring them back in front of my eyes. The rest of the time they... they sleep in my mind and I forget. And so will you. Oh yes, you will. You'll find there's so much else to think about. To remember. Our lives are different to anybody else's. That's the exciting thing, that nobody in the universe can do what we're doing.

The Doctor: Don't you see what this is going to mean to all the people who come to serve Klieg the all powerful? Why, no country, no person would dare to have a single thought that was not your own. Eric Klieg's own conception of the, of the way of life!

Eric Klieg: Brilliant! Yes, yes, you're right. Master of the world.

The Doctor: Well now I know you're mad, I just wanted to make sure.

Captain Hopper: Well, I hope they know what they're doing. I've been down there once and I don't reckon to go again.

Victoria: That's all right, Captain. It's comforting to know that we have your superior strength to call on, should we need it.

The Cyber Controller: We will survive.

The Cyber Controller: You belong to us. You shall be like us.

The Professor: How did you know we would release you? You could have remained frozen forever.

The Cyber Controller: The humanoid mind. You are inquisitive.

The Doctor: Ah, I see. A trap. A very special sort of trap too.

The Professor: What do you mean special trap?

The Doctor: They wanted superior intellects. That's why they made the trap so complicated!

The Cyber Controller: We knew that somebody like you would come to our planet someday.

The Doctor: Yes. We've done exactly as you calculated, haven't we?

The Cyber Controller: Now you belong to us.

[The Doctor on disabling the Cybermats]

The Doctor: The power cable generated an electrical field and confused their tiny metal minds. You might almost say they've had a complete metal breakdown.[Jamie groans] Oh, I'm so sorry, Jamie.

The Doctor: Jamie, I hope you made those ropes secure.

Jamie: Oh, the King of the Beasties himself couldnae get out of that one.

Computer: Immediate emergency. In two minutes thirty seven seconds, the reactor will explode.

The Doctor: Well, a second out. We can't all be perfect.

Jamie: Victoria?

Victoria: What?

Jamie: Did you see how those lassies were dressed?

Victoria: Yes, I did. And trust you to think of something like that.

Jamie: Well, I couldn't help thinking about it.

Victoria: Well, I think it's disgusting, wearing that kind of… thing.

Jamie: Oh, aye, so it is, so it is. You, eh, you don't see yourself dressed like that then?

Victoria: Jamie!

Jamie: Oh, I'm sorry. It was, eh, just an idea.

Victoria: We will now change the subject, please. I want to look at this man.

[Behind the curtain, the warrior flexes his claw, opens his mouth and moves his head.]

Victoria: Who are you?

Varga: [hissing voice] Varga.

Victoria: Where are you from?

Varga: From the red planet.

Victoria: Mars? We thought you were dead and then you came alive.

Computer: However, the suspected presence of an alien spacecraft must be investigated, in case of potentially fissionable material.

Jamie: Spacecraft! Hey, do you reckon that's where the warrior's gone back to?

The Doctor: Well he didn't come by Shetland Pony, Jamie.

The Doctor: [Looking at a device in the Ioniser control room] Yes. This is an automatic chemical dispenser, is it not?

Garrett: Yes.

The Doctor: How does it work?

Clent: Well, you choose the category of the article that you want by indicating it on one of these little chaps here. [Indicates several small buttons] Jolly good. And now you dial the precise chemical formula that you want there.

The Doctor: May I? There's something I need rather desperately. [Dials in a short formula]

The Doctor: Ah, that's better. Now then, let's see. Jamie has vanished, [Does more dialing] Victoria's on her way back to the base, and neither of them can help us with our main problem.

[The dispenser produces a phial which the Doctor takes]

The Doctor: An exact description of the spacecraft's propulsion unit.

Garrett: That will?

The Doctor: I will.

Clent: With the help of Ammonium Sulphide?

The Doctor: We know these creatures come from Mars, don't we? What do we know about their planet's atmospheric conditions?

Garrett: Chiefly nitrogen, with virtually no oxygen or hydrogen.

The Doctor: Then they're not going to enjoy this little concoction much, are they?

Clent: What? You mean you intend to use it as a kind of toxic gas?

The Doctor: Well, if I'm going to an alien spaceship, it may come in handy.

[Three Ice warriors enter the Ioniser control room]

Clent: Well, now, gentlemen, you said no traps and we, for our part, have made utterly sure that there are no traps...

Varga: I made no promises. I merely warned you not to trick me.

Garrett: How can we help you?

Varga: I will tell you what I want and you will give it to me.

Clent: Oh, come now, Varga. That's not the way to talk. We're both of us in a very difficult situation and at times like this it beholds us both to proceed with mutual respect and, because the whole world could be...

[Walters has regained consciousness and is reaching for his weapon. An Ice warrior kills him]

Doctor: They're human beings, if that's what you mean. Indulging their favorite pastime of trying to destroy each other.

Astrid: I suggested that we meet under a disused jetty by the river.

Doctor: Disused Yeti?

The Doctor: People spend all their time making nice things and then other people come along and break them!

Griffin: I can't see anything.

Jamie: Over there, by the trees. Hey, he's armed, too. Get down. Look, I'm going out there, you stay down here. When the rest of the guards come, send them out after me.

Griffin: Yes, all right. [Jamie goes into the garden] This is just about the end of a perfect day. [A shot rings out] Hey, I know the food's bad, but you don't have to go that far! [More shots, and Griffin hides under the kitchen table] All right, have it your own way! Why did I ever leave Wollamaloo?

Jamie: You must have been a nasty little boy.

Benik: Oh, I was. But I had a very enjoyable childhood.

[Astrid hides among rocks as the guard runs across the field]

Swann: [faint] Help! Somebody help me! [Astrid finds the tunnel entrance] Help! [A short way in, Astrid finds Swann on the floor, with a bad cut on the back of his forehead] Help. Somebody help me.

Astrid: Who did this to you?

Swann: A man named Salamander.

Astrid: Salamander?

Swann: Down there.

Astrid: Down there?

[The 'Doctor' gestures at the controls]

Jamie: Me Doctor? But you said we were never to touch the controls.

The Doctor: Quite right, Jamie! Welcome to the TARDIS

[The real Doctor enters]

Salamander: Thank you. You're doing so well impersonating me, I thought I might return the compliment.

The Doctor: ... And Giles Kent?

Salamander: ...unfortunately, didn't survive the explosion.

The Doctor: We're going to put you outside Salamander. No friends. No safety. Nothing. You'll run, but they'll catch up with you.

Guard: I have instructions that no one is to leave or enter the compound without a written pass from Chief Robson. Not until after the emergency.

Maggie: But you know who I am. My husband is second in command to Chief Robson.

Guard: Yes, Mrs. Harris, I know.

Maggie: Then let me pass, please.

Guard: Sorry, madam. I think you should return to the residential block.

Jamie: You mean to say that this place supplies all the gas for the whole of the south of England?

Price: And for the whole of Wales.

Victoria: What are all those lights for?

Price: Well, that's a plan of the entire compound and each of those lights represents a remote control camera that I can switch through to this screen if I want to look at any particular area. Like this.

Jamie: Oh. Where are all these rigs people talk about?

Price: Well, they're out at sea, of course, but that plan over there shows you the relative position of all the rigs under our command.

Victoria: What's the big one in the middle?

Price: Well, that's the central control rig complex, the sort of the nerve centre of the whole thing. The other rigs feed her with gas and she in turn pumps it to us via the main pipeline, see.

Victoria: How awful to have to live out at sea. And lonely.

Price: Oh, I don't know. Mister Robson once spent four years on one of the early rigs without ever going ashore.

Jamie: Aye, that would account for quite a lot.

Maggie: There is little time. You know what you must do?

Robson: Yes.

Maggie: You will obey?

[Robson nods, then watches Maggie walk into the sea until the waves break over her head]

The Doctor: If you don't mind my saying so, Mister Van Lutyens, I think this is a very bad idea of yours. You don't know what you're up against.

Jamie: Aye, you wouldn't catch me down there.

Chief: Why don't we wait until Mister Harris comes back, sir?

Van Lutyens: The only way to find out if this weed stuff of yours is blocking the base of the impeller is to go down and have a look.

Chief: Look, Mister Van Lutyens, I have no authority to send my men down there.

Van Lutyens: I can't sit about waiting any longer. I have no position of authority here but I do have the run of the company installations, and if I can do nothing else I can at least inspect the base of the impeller shaft. [puts on a gas mask and steps through the airlock onto the impeller shaft lift platform] Tot straks.

The Doctor: Good luck.

Jamie: Aye, you'll need it.

Chief: All right, lower him down.

[Oak and quill are at the lift controls]

Price: Good. see that he stays there. Mister Harris?

Harris: Yes?

Price: They've found Mister Robson.

Harris: Good. Where?

Price: In his cabin, lying on his bunk, apparently.

Harris: Oh, well that's a relief.

Price: There's a guard at the door, sir.

Harris: Good.

Jones: Mister Harris. I want to see Mister Robson.

Harris: Robson? But he's ill. He won't be able to put two...

Jones: I want to see him.

Harris: But you've seen him already. Surely you could see he was in no fit state to help us in any way.

Jones: I fully realize that, Mister Harris, but we're old friends. He might talk to me. There's just a possibility that he may know something that could help us.

Harris: I see. All right, but I'm coming with you. Robson's in an unpredictable state at the moment. He could be violent.

Harris: It's no good. We won't hear from the Doctor or any of them. We must evacuate the compound.

Jones: No! We said an hour. He's got ten more minutes.

Harris: But even if he does come back, what good could he do? The only possible weapon we might have used against the weed has been destroyed.

Jones: That was your entire stock of oxygen, was it?

Harris: Yes.

Jones: Right. Perkins, get onto London to the Defense Minister. I want a full red alert on this now. Tell him what's happened and ask him to arrange for as many tankers of oxygen as he can muster to be sent here immediately.

Perkins: Yes, Miss Jones.

Harris: They won't be in time. We must evacuate the compound. The pipeline room is a mass of weed and foam. You've seen how rapidly it reproduces. It could swamp the entire compound at any moment.

Jones: It could, but it hasn't yet, and until it does, we stay here.

Harris: And when it does attack, how do you expect to fight it? With what weapons?

The Doctor: Perhaps I can answer those questions, Mister Harris.

Jones: Doctor! Oh, thank heavens you're alive.

Harris: What about Robson? Did you find him?

Jamie: Aye, we found him all right.

Harris: And my wife?

The Doctor: Well, we didn't see her, no.

Harris: No. There's not much hope, is there. What can we do? How can we fight this hideous thing?

The Doctor: You say there's not much hope. I believe there is.

Harris: But even if we succeed in fighting of the weed, what about those people already affected by it?

The Doctor: Well on our way back here we stopped of at the Medicare Centre. The man that Jamie fought with in the corridor has almost completely recovered.

Harris: What?

The Doctor: Yes, the weed growth on his arm has disappeared and died. He's bemused, he's dazed, but he's alive!

Harris: But how? Why? What killed the weed?

The Doctor: Noise! Sound vibrations.

Jones: How did you find out?

The Doctor: Victoria discovered it.

Victoria: I did?

The Doctor: Well, yes. You screamed.

Victoria: I screamed.

The Doctor: It's her scream, her particular pattern of sound that does the trick.

Harris: So that's why the crews on the rigs spoke softly. The noise affected them.

The Doctor: Yes, very possibly. Now, before you evacuate this compound, just give me one half hour.

Harris: The risk is too great. The entire compound is alive with seaweed.

Jones: Half an hour won't make that much difference. Doctor, what do you think we can do?

The Doctor: We make a noise, Miss Jones. We make an awful lot of noise!

Harris: It's too late. We'll never stop it now.

The Doctor: But we've got to. It may be too late.

Harris: It's impossible, I tell you. It's seeping in from every corner of the compound.

The Doctor: Yes, but if we can destroy the weed's nerve centre.

Jones: But you said yourself you don't know where the nerve centre is.

The Doctor: But we do. It's here.

Harris: That's the Control Rig.

The Doctor: Precisely. We must generate enough sound to penetrate the Control Rig.

Jones: But how will you get it there?

The Doctor: That way. Through the pipelines. Mister Harris, this is the only way to help your wife and all those other people.

Harris: Yes, I realize that, but there isn't time.

The Doctor: Please. Just one half hour.

Harris: Price.

Price: Sir.

Harris: What's happening in the pipeline room?

[A monitor is switched on]

Victoria: Oh, no.

Price: Half an hour?

Harris: Yes, that's about all we've got. But you're right. We must try.

The Doctor: Oh, thank you. Now then, Mister Price, where do all these big leads go to?

Price: The transmitter and loud speakers down below, sir.

The Doctor: I see.

Price: What's this all about, Doctor?

The Doctor:Well, if we can boost this equipment to transmit enough sound down the pipeline, we can destroy the weed's nerve centre.

The Doctor: Logic, my dear Zoe, merely enables one to be wrong with authority.

The Doctor: I suppose you've come for me?

Cyberman 1: You know our ways.

The Doctor: Yes, I hoped you realised somebody did. I imagine you have orders to destroy me?

Cyberman 1: Yes.

The Doctor: Tell me one thing, why did you order Duggan to destroy radio communication with the Earth? After all, that is why you want possession of the wheel, isn't it?

Cyberman 1: You know our ways.

The Doctor: That doesn't answer my question.

Cyberman 2: He was instructed to destroy only the transmitting complex.

The Doctor: Oh, I see, how interesting, yes, of course. And presumably your large space-ship holds your invasion fleet, and the smaller ships can only enter the planet's atmosphere by homing on a radio beam.

The following serials occurred after the Second Doctor's era had officially ended (in the eras of the Third Doctor, the Fifth Doctor and the Sixth Doctor respectively) and thus are not technically part of this Doctor's era. As they are all quotes involving the Second Doctor, however, they are included here for the sake of completion.

The Second Doctor: Ah, thank you. I was wondering where that had got to. [He picks up his recorder and tries to play a tune] You haven't been trying to play this, have you? [To the Third Doctor's TARDIS] Oh, I see you've been doing the TARDIS up a bit. Hmm, I don't like it.

Jo Grant(referring to the first Doctor): I hate to ask, but who was that?

Both Doctors: Me. [beat, face each other] Me!

Second Doctor:This stuff, or whoever sent it, is cleverer than we are. Unfortunate, isn't it?

Second Doctor: You haven't seen my recorder, have you? It's a little thing about this long and I had it when I came in, and I put it down somewhere...

Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart: I'm sorry Doctor, but I must insist. My place is with the men out there, trying to do something about that... whatever it is out there, not standing about here, messing around, looking for some damn fool flute!

The Doctor: Give a monkey control of its environment, and it will fill the world with bananas!

The Second Doctor: (after Dastari explains the augmentations that have been performed on Chessene) Dastari, I have no doubt that you could augment an earwig to the point where it could understand nuclear physics, but it would still be a very stupid thing to do!

The Second Doctor: Dastari, you have more letters after your name than anyone I know, enough for two alphabets. How is it that you can still be a stupid, incorrigable and thoroughly objectionible old idiot?! (Turns to Jamie) And what are you smiling at you... hairy legged highlander?

Dastari: You have to be conscious while the neuron bombardment excites the brain cells, I shall then be able to examine them.

The Second Doctor: You should be examining your own brain cells, Dastari, most of them must have leaked out of your ears or you wouldn't be involved in this madness!

The Second Doctor: Do try and keep out of my way in future and in past, there's a good fellow. The time continuum should be big enough for the both of us. (Patting his own belly, but implying The Sixth Doctor's) Just.